Isaías Tejeda and Melky Cabrera took the ball out of the park and were the protagonists of a quartet of players that distributed the nine hits that linked the Águilas Cibaeñas last night to defeat the Leones del Escogido 7-3 in a game on Friday night. at the Cibao stadium.
With the win, the Eagles claim second place, having finished third before the start of the game that marked the debut of “Tsunami”, Carlos Martínez.
Tejeda led the Eagles offense with a homerun, double and single; Cabrera homerun and one of a base, Ramón Torres double and single and Rangel Ravelo two hits.
Seven pitchers for yellow drew 14 hits from the red bats to limit them to just four touchdowns.
For the Lions, Aderlín Rodríguez hit a homerun and a single, Franchy Cordero doubled and hit, Brett Sullivan and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. two from one base to lead their team.
The result left the winners eaglets with a 14-12 record that puts them in second place. The losers were 14-14 and dropped to fourth place in the standings.
Luis Felipe Castillo (1-0) was left with the win, the defeat for Miguel Martínez (0-1) and the saved game was credited to him by Neftalí Feliz (7).
The debut of the “Tsunami”
The game marked the debut of pitcher Carlos Martínez (El Tsunami), who went without a decision, with 3.1 innings, faced 16 batters, gave up seven hits, two runs, earned one, walked none and struckout four.
After Martínez, Darío Álvarez (4), Luis Felipe Castillo (5), Juan Nicasio (6), Gregory Soto (7), Michael Ynoa (8) and Neftalí Feliz (9) climbed the hill.
For the elected, lefthanded Miguel Martínez started, who stayed only 2.2 innings, faced 12 opponents, gave up four hits, earned four runs, walked none and fanned out two.
After Martínez, Samuel Adames (3), Edward Paredes (4), Tai Tiedeman (5), Andrés Núñez (5), Rhiner Cruz (6), Fernando Rodney (7) and Anderson Severino (8) took over.
The races
The Eagles made two runs in the first off solo homers by Melky Cabrera and Isaías Tejeda.
The Scarlets got a one off in the third on a single by Estevan Florial, Iván Castillo reached base incorrectly and put runners in the corners and Franchy Cordero drove into Florial with a cannonball.
At the end of the third inning, the eagles attacked again with an unstoppable by Ramón Torres and, after two outs, a single by Rangel Ravelo and a double RBI by Isaías Tejeda.
The fourth looked big for the Lions when Joe Dunand and Brett Sullivan hit running singles and Aderlin Rodriguez hit the ball into midfield. But Dunand misunderstood the hit and was put on the board. Sullivan, who moved to third base, scored on the sacrifice fly by Estevan Florial.
In the fifth, the fifth of the yellow card came on singles by Rangel Ravelo and Isaías Tejeda, who hit Johan Camargo and was shot by Robel García.
In the sixth for the Reds, Aderlin Rodríguez hit a long home run on the left field against Nicasio for the third on the visitors.
The Harriers took off from third again with one in the sixth through Ramón Torres’ double and an RBI single by Melky Cabrera.
In the seventh, Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. and Gregory Polanco made their first hits of the game after one out and one on an infield.
Without getting unstoppable, the Eagles made another in the eighth when Robel García badly negotiated four and stole the middle, moved to third base with Jon Kemmer’s ground and scored with a sacrifice fly against the left wall by Francisco Peña.
The Eagles and the Lions will meet again on Saturday at Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, where it will be their final showdown in the regular round.